Feb 01 2010
Writing About Characters Using Their Senses
I provide advice about how to write novels, comic books and graphic novels. Most of my content applies to fiction-writing in general, but I also provide articles specifically about superhero stories.
If John is your point-of-view character, you usually don’t need to say something like “John saw Randy drop-kick his sister.” Usually it’s sufficient to say “Randy drop-kicked his sister” because we can infer that the POV saw it. I would only recommend getting into the details of who sensed what if those details are interesting and/or hard to infer. For example, if a superhero is using a superpower to sense something happening, then it makes sense to point that out because the observation is not routine.
